summer solstice
a climbing rose
bent with blossoms

trailhead poppies –
but today
with butterflies

a reed hangs
from the swan's beak
hot afternoon

Gettysburg –
the children pause
to watch a dove

summer afternoon
nuns giggle
in a dim corridor

early sunrise –
pink bindweed curled
around barley stalks

river bend
the slow move
of an eddy

Independence Day
slowly the clouds
drift upstream

blazing sun
the shape of her legs
through a thin summer dress

summer school –
papier-mâché pigs
sunning on the deck